When I look around the office I see co-workers searching the web on their Smartphone’s. Actually I would say that seven out of ten of my co-workers seem to prefer using their mobile devices over their desktop computers when searching the internet. And anywhere I go I see people staring into their mobile devices. I was recently in a hospital waiting room and noticed many people using their mobile phones. It was only a few short years ago people were reading magazines to pass the time, now almost everyone’s face is glowing from the light of their mobile phones.
Not to worry, magazines are still being read, only now these magazines include QR code images in advertisements. These QR codes can be scanned by a mobile phone and the QR code links the readers Smartphone right to the advertisers website. And this is how important a mobile website has become.
If I were to ask you if your current existing website was mobile web adapted, you would most likely reply that is was. After all, you can load your website on any Smartphone device, you can zoom in on your website, you can manipulate your website left and right and up and down, you can click on your websites links to find your businesses contact information, therefore your website must be mobile web adapted. Well, I would venture to say that you are mistaken unless your website has been adapted to the mobile web your site is not offering mobile users a good experience. Not to worry though, adapting or creating a mobile website is affordable, fast and easy if you use the goMobi mobile website creator. You can adapt your existing website in minutes with feature rich technology like one touch calling, bookings, and directions, all for around $6.95/ per month.
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The primary purpose of your site’s About Us page is to provide information about your business and what it can deliver. It should include the basics, such as who your company serves, how long it’s been around, and its long-term goals and mission. Don’t forget to include your address. And if your company has multiple locations or does business globally, this is the perfect place to mention that information, or at least link to a page on your site that does, such as your Contact Us page. But don’t stop there, which is a mistake a lot of businesses make. What results is a stale, unoriginal, and downright boring About Us page.
Following are some of the more easily overlooked business expenses. These are routine and allowable deductions that many business owners miss. Keep your eye out for them.
- audio and videotapes related to business skills
- bank service charges
- business association dues
- business gifts
- business-related magazines and books
- casual labor and tips
- casualty and theft losses
- coffee and beverage service
- commissions
- consultant fees
- credit bureau fees
- office supplies
- online computer services related to business
- parking and meters
- petty cash funds
- postage
- promotion and publicity
- seminars and trade shows
- taxi and bus fare
- telephone calls away from the business
Note: Just because you didn’t get a receipt doesn’t mean you can’t deduct the expense, so keep track of those small items and get big tax savings.
View the data showing the disparity in the current health care system between small and large businesses.
You know the value of providing health insurance to your employees. But it can be a real challenge for small businesses. On average, small businesses pay about 18% more than large firms for the same health insurance policy. And small businesses lack the purchasing power that larger employers have. The Affordable Care Act provides tax credits and the ability to shop for insurance in Exchanges that help close this gap.
Experts say that the efforts by small businesses are helping change the public’s perception of how and where change can take place. In times of rising energy costs and increasing consumer demand for “green” solutions, experts believe business owners are also smart to start trying.
In some cases, ecologically conscientious entrepreneurs are even finding that “green” sensibilities are not only good for the Earth, they’re also good for business. In other cases, small businesses are finding that their dreams of becoming more environmentally responsible don’t have to be as expensive or as complicated as they thought.
Following are some ways that small businesses can make a difference:
- Try to buy more products from local suppliers, thus reducing the need for long-distance shipping.
- Replace high-energy light bulbs and equipment. Your utility company may offer rebates, loans or grants to help with an energy-efficient transition.
- Buy recycled products like stationery, packaging materials, paper towels and other kitchen and bathroom supplies.
- Buy nontoxic, environmentally friendly products like cleaning supplies, inks and paints.
- Refill ink cartridges rather than toss them. Discard unneeded computers in an environmentally responsible way.
- Encourage carpooling. It even may be possible for some employees to telecommute, or to gradually switch your fleet to hybrid vehicles.
- Do more business online. Choose online banking over a trip; send documents via e-mail rather than a delivery service.
- “Tune-up” your heating, ventilating and air-conditioning system with an annual maintenance contract.
- Install an Energy Star qualified programmable thermostat to automate your HVAC system.
- Consider funding energy-saving through the Small Business Administration’s 504 loan program, which includes energy efficiency upgrades.
QR-Codes are two dimensional bar codes (datamatrix) that are designed to have their contents decoded at a high speed. The acronym QR is derived from the term Quick Response. The company Denso Wave originally spawned the term QR as the creator intended that such bar codes and their contents were to be decoded at high speed electronically.
With the technology of mobile phones constantly expanding, especially within mobile internet, QR-Codes are the perfect solution to quickly and efficiently bring mobile phone users onto the mobile web. QR-Codes can be used to store all kinds of data including web addresses.
How They Work?
Take a mobile phone such as the iPhone; nearly ever mobile phone has a digital camera in today’s world. The camera, along with decoding software can be used to capture a picture of the QR-Code of which the QR-Code software decoder and then transform the data held with the QR-Code to a meaningful action for the mobile phone:
* Connect to a web address
* Download a MP3
* Dial a telephone number
* Prompt your email client with a sender address
This can all be done within a matter of milliseconds making the transformation from a user’s mobile phones browser to the mobile web instantaneous.
Scan the graphic below with your smart phone’s QR Code reader to see how it works.
To see some ideas on how to use QR Codes and generate your own Code CLICK HERE
